Description

Join storytelling coaches, journalists and the Detour Company Theatre on July 8 to listen to — or share — experiences with intellectual and developmental disabilities services. The event is part of a larger reporting project by the Arizona Daily Star, Tucson's daily newspaper, and ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.

Detour Company Theatre (photo) provides performance opportunities for children and adults with disabilities.

The event will feature:

• Artists with disabilities performing personal monologues developed at their five-week summer storytelling workshop with Detour.
• Freelance journalist Sarah Kim telling her story about becoming a journalist with cerebral palsy and discussing how she uses storytelling in her work.
• Arizona Daily Star journalist Amy Silverman and Detour director Becca Monteleone explaining different storytelling methods in performance and journalism for participants to try themselves.

The event will include subtitles and a certified American Sign Language interpreter.

Learn more, and register to attend.